Albert Schweitzer : the man and his mind /
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New York :
Harper & Brothers,
[1947]
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Table of Contents:
- [from dust jacket] (Pt. 1. His life.) Memories of childhood and youth : music lessons at eight; early musings on the meaning of life
- Work at Strasburg University : Gospel questionings; studies and first travels; theology, philosophy and music
- Organs and organ-building : struggling for the "true organ"; regulations and organization
- Decision for service : from music to medicine; Schweitzer "chooses" Africa
- Lambaréné: first period : the practice of medicine and the practice of music in the primeval forest - and some writing and thinking
- Visits to Sweden and elsewhere : doctoring and the war cease; organ recitals and lecture tours
- Lambaréné: second period : building a new hospital and fighting disease
- Visits to London and Prague : sermons, the Goethe address, and miscellaneous writing
- Lambaréné: third period : a time of ceaseless labor
- The guest-house at Günsbach : the birth of a Schweitzer "shrine"
- Later visits to Great Britain : new accolades and adventures
- Lambaréné: fourth period : war again; the last years in the jungle
- (Pt. 2. His thought.) The quest of the historical Jesus : "The most creative reconstruction of the life of Jesus ever made"
- Reception of "The Quest" in England : a new point of reference for German, English and American Biblical criticism
- The mysticism of Paul the Apostle : a vindication of his consistency
- Music, and the music of J.S. Bach : a leading interpreter evaluates the father of composers
- Indian thought and its development : a study that began in 1900
- The ethic of reverence for life : the orthodoxy of his "heresies"
- Conclusion.
- (Appendices : three important papers.) Civilization and colonization
- Goethe
- Religion in modern civilization
- Index.